When Respondents Log into an Online Questionnaire and Pretend to Be

question 53

Multiple Choice

When respondents log into an online questionnaire and pretend to be someone else responding as this fictitious respondent would; this is called:

• A) bogus respondents
• B) multiple submissions
• C) fieldworkers become fatigued
• D) intentional fieldworker error
• E) misrepresentation

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Definitions:

Variance

A statistic used in statistics to measure how far a set of numbers are spread out from their average value.

Negative Deviations

Differences where observed values fall below the expected or average values in a data set.

Negatively Skewed

A distribution that is skewed to the left, indicating that the tail on the left side is longer or fatter than the right side.

Parameters

In statistics, parameters are numerical characteristics of a population, such as mean or standard deviation, that are typically unknown and estimated from sample data.